RC Harris water treatment plant
May. 25th, 2024 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"– Your goddamn herringbone tiles in the toilets cost more than half our salaries put together.
— Yes, that's true.
— Aren't you ashamed of that?
— You watch, in fifty years they're going to come here and gape at the herringbone and the copper roofs. We need excess, something to live up to. I fought tooth and nail for that herringbone.
— You fought. You fought. Think about those who built the intake tunnels. Do you know how many of us died in there?
— There was no record kept." — Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin Of a Lion
This one's been on the bucket list since Grade 11 English. It opens to the public once a year, for doors open, and I finally got to see it.





















